Archive for: August, 2013

Empathy Blog: Remaking The Empathy Roadshow

29Aug

Tuesday 27th August 2013 This week, I’m remaking The Empathy Roadshow for its performance at The Marlowe Theatre Studio, in Canterbury, on September 14th , where it will incorporate lots of thoughts and stories from local communities who we met on our community tour in July. Looking back over footage of interviews from the tour, […]

Values Blog: A conversation with friends

14Aug

Three friends, three perspectives on ‘things’. This conversation (Sunday afternoon, 4th August), like all the conversations I’ve had with visitors to Curiosity, was enlightening. Something particularly interesting happens when talking to people who really know each other’s cherishing/preserving/collecting habits. A lot gets said in what is unsaid.

Learning Blog: My first ever podcast…

08Aug

This is my first ever podcast and I’m currently speaking to you from the cupboard under the stairs. I’ve got a Dictaphone in one hand and I’ve got a coat hanger in my other hand and it’s got tights stretched over it and I’m trying to make the sound quality a bit better. Can you […]

Values Blog: Train journey to Margate thinking

08Aug

Materialism: What is the value of materialism? Do we have a right to own things at the cost of other people’s wellbeing? Who’s affected by what we buy? How much responsibility do we have when we consume? Do we have a choice in how we consume? Why does our desire for things make us spend […]

Beach Hut 136: Inside Out

05Aug

As part of the Duchamp Festival taking place in Herne Bay until 17th August, local artists Karen Simpson and Jenny Samuels have created an Inside Out installation at Hut 136. The installation aims to challenge perceptions of what we expect to see and what happens when we are confronted with something out of context with […]